HARDCORE | Bone Mask

Bone Mask checks all the boxes for a self-described sludge-doom-hardcore band. The pounding, propulsive drums; crushing guitar and bass; and guttural vocals are all there. But what stands out about the band's EP, which it released last summer, is just how unrelenting the music is. It's not so much a bludgeoning, brutal quality as it is a heavy churn that hammers the listener with thick waves, pauses, and then resumes the pounding from a different direction.